March 22 marks significant historical events. In 1622, an Indian massacre occurred in Virginia. The Stamp Act was enacted in ...

War is never pretty, but there can be levels even to the cruelty and ugliness of war, with some almost inconceivably horrendous. Such levels can be measured by one macabre metric: the number of deaths ...

History feels distant until patterns begin to repeat in front of you. These books shift how you see power, trade, and human ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself. A statue of the Buddha in Kamakura, ...

World’s Fair visitors walk around the Unisphere as the Swiss Sky Ride cars are in the background 112 off the ground on April 25, 1964, in Queens, N.Y. World’s Fair visitors walk around the Unisphere ...